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title: Abundant Harvest poster, rice-threshing photo set (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abundant-harvest-rice-threshing-photo-poster-lao-1959/
description: A yellow Lao-language photo poster on rice harvesting. Eight captioned black-and-white photographs show villagers cutting, threshing and winnowing rice.
section: Collection
---

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[![Abundant Harvest poster, rice-threshing photo set, 1959 US poster: A yellow Lao-language photo poster on rice harvesting](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/abundant-harvest-rice-threshing-photo-poster-lao-1959.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/abundant-harvest-rice-threshing-photo-poster-lao-1959.jpg)

# Abundant Harvest poster, rice-threshing photo set (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)

A yellow Lao-language photo poster on rice harvesting. Eight captioned black-and-white photographs show villagers cutting, threshing and winnowing rice, buffalo trampling grain, a man carrying baskets on a pole, and a flooded paddy edge, with a headed text block at upper left. The poster promotes harvest-handling methods; the Lao text has not been read in full. The tell is plain-folks: named-by-occupation farmers at work stand for the audience itself.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Lao) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ການເກັບກ່ຽວໄດ້ຜົນດີ

[Body text block and eight photo captions in Lao script, not transcribed]
[small printed code at lower right: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[Heading, read approximately: 'Harvest with good results' / 'Abundant harvest'. Remaining Lao text not translated.]
```

Only the heading is given; the Lao body text and photo captions were not read. NARA title: 'Abundant Harves (Poster)'.

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